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Hi! I'm D. Andrew Neves

 Editor-in-Chief, Microgreens World, “The Best Information: Tray Tested, Science Backed" Co-Founder of JPure Farms, an earlystartup indoor microgreens operation in Atlanta, Georgia Author of more than 10 books, including "Children of the Soil: How To Grow Nutritious Microgreens At Home in Nine Days" Founder and Managing Editor of MBS Publishing, "Science Writing for the Rest of Us"  Certified Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and over 35 years of writing and researching health and nutrition. Visit my website, Microgreens World, www.microgreensworld.com

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Microgreens World Weekly Digest - September 4, 2026

One legal protection separated them, and it covers microgreens too.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Microgreens World Your weekly source for microgreens science, business & growing news Vol. 7 · No. 36 · Week of August 28 – September 3, 2026 · microgreensworld.com Top Story This Week Industry Thirteen produce suppliers were paid in full in the twelve days before a major indoor farm filed to liquidate. Several hundred others were not. One legal protection put those thirteen ahead of $112 million in secured debt,...

Microgreens World Weekly Digest

Not a microgreens recall. But the thread they are pulling runs through every tray you sow.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Microgreens World Your weekly source for microgreens science, business & growing news Vol. 7 · No. 35 · Week of August 21 – 27, 2026 · microgreensworld.com Top Story This Week Food Safety Fifty-five people across fifteen states, and the investigators have stopped looking at the packhouse One line in the federal advisory turns this from somebody else's recall into your problem. U.S. Food and...

Microgreens World Weekly Digest

All three of them, not just the flagship. That is the part that has never happened before.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Microgreens World Your weekly source for microgreens science, business & growing news Vol. 7 · No. 34 · Week of August 14 – 20, 2026 · microgreensworld.com Top Story Industry A vertical farming company just said all three of its farms are profitable Single-site profitability has happened before in this industry, and it has never once meant the model survived being copied. Retail Insider ·...

Microgreens World Weekly Digest

Your weekly roundup of microgreens science, business, and growing news — August 14, 2026͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Microgreens World Your weekly source for microgreens science, business & growing news Vol. 7 · No. 33 · Week of August 7 – 13, 2026 · microgreensworld.com Top Story Industry One of the best-funded indoor farms in America just went dark at a facility that was shipping microgreens to grocery shelves Staff found out by letter, and a second grower in another state announced the same decision four...

Microgreens World - Weekly Digest for Growers, Researchers & Entrepreneurs

National Farmers Market Week, 80 Acres Farms closes Hamilton, and a fertigation study that tracks Salmonella. August 7, 2026͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Microgreens World Your weekly source for microgreens science, business & growing news Vol. 7 · No. 32 · Week of July 31 – August 6, 2026 · microgreensworld.com Top Story This Week Policy A state government just wrote microgreens into its agriculture budget, and it is the first one ever to do it. DT NEXT · DTNEXT.IN · AUGUST 6, 2026 This Week's Stories...

Microgreens World Weekly Digest

Your weekly roundup of microgreens science, business, and growing news — July 31, 2026͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Microgreens World Your weekly source for microgreens science, business & growing news Vol. 7 · No. 31 · Week of July 24 – 30, 2026 · microgreensworld.com Top Story This Week Food Safety A Cyclospora Scare, a New Microbial Review, and a Very Good Week to Be a Local Grower A pathogen story moving through the leafy greens channel and a peer-reviewed review of microbial risk in microgreens landed...

Microgreens World Weekly Digest

Your weekly roundup of microgreens science, business, and growing news — July 24, 2026͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Microgreens World Your weekly source for microgreens science, business & growing news Vol. 7 · No. 30 · Week of July 17 – 23, 2026 · microgreensworld.com Top Story This Week Regulation & Food Safety The FDA just handed microgreens growers a traceability reprieve through 2028 — and the ones treating it as a countdown, not a day off, are about to pull ahead. Vertical Farm Daily ·...

Microgreens World Weekly Digest

Your weekly roundup of microgreens science, business, and growing news — July 17, 2026͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Microgreens World Your weekly source for microgreens science, business & growing news Vol. 7 · No. 29 · Week of July 10 – 16, 2026 · microgreensworld.com Top Story This Week Market Growth Global microgreens market projects 10.9% annual growth as organic demand forces producers to double output. Industry Today · industrytoday.co.uk · July 16, 2026 This Week's Stories Bone Health...

Microgreens World Weekly Digest

Your weekly roundup of microgreens science, business, and growing news — July 10, 2026͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Microgreens World Your weekly source for microgreens science, business & growing news Vol. 7 · No. 28 · Week of July 3 – 9, 2026 · microgreensworld.com Top Story This Week Industry Profile Belgian Startup Bets That Microgreens Belong in Every Kitchen, Not Just Michelin Stars A Belgian microgreens company — co-founded by Cesar and Yuval Depicker in 2022 — is pushing past the specialty niche to...

Microgreens World Weekly Digest

Your weekly roundup of microgreens science, business, and growing news — July 3, 2026͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Microgreens World Your weekly source for microgreens science, business & growing news Vol. 7 · No. 27 · Week of June 26 – July 2, 2026 · microgreensworld.com Top Story This Week Commercial Operations "We Never Say No": Koppert Cress Reveals the Operational Secret Behind Commercial Microgreens at Scale Koppert Cress built its entire commercial identity around a single promise to chefs — and this...